Smoked Rice
Pictured: My grandfather Jose with me and sister Mariel, late 1980s.One of the most powerful life lessons I've learned came from the kitchen, and my grandfather quite accidentally taught it.It must have been 1988 or 1989. I was in high…
The State Street Brige Shootiong: An Unexpected Story Of Kindness
Sources: John Kass and Jeremy Gorner Chicago Tribune) and Steven Dahlman (Marina City Online). It all happened in an instant, on a rainy summer evening in downtown Chicago:A man was walking over the State Street Bridge when he was approached…
Getting To The Essence Of Things
The simple approach is often the best one. Alfred Hitchcock did it in Vertigo. He only had to use a woman's face. He zoomed in Kim Novak's lips first, and then on her eyes, from which the movie…
What Really Matters
1. There's a scene in the 1987 movie Wall Street in which Bud Fox, the main character, is about to be arrested in front of his office. An Old co-worker, Mr. Manheim, takes him by the shoulder and tells him, …